Thoughtless Delineation
By Shane Bouel. Writer and adoptee exposing the realities of forced adoption, identity erasure, and institutional harm. His work challenges dominant narratives and centres truth, justice, and lived experience.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 77 | Founded | 3 months ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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The $500,000 Child: How Queensland Sealed the Exit Door and Called It Care
The Letter and the Timeline
In August 2025, I wrote to the Honourable Amanda Camm MP, Queensland’s Minister for Child Safety. I raised concerns about the state’s child protection system. I did not expect a fast reply. I got a slow one —...
The Grammar of Erasure: How Adoption Language Does the System's Work
There is a sentence I want you to read carefully.
“This amazing family from North Carolina recently matched with an expectant mother who is due in September.”
Read it again. Count the clauses. The family is the subject. The family does th...
I Followed Matt Wolfe's Productivity Tutorial. It Accidentally Built a Bias Correction System.
The Tutorial
I want to start with Matt Wolfe.
Matt Wolfe runs Future Tools, one of the most-watched AI news channels online. A few months ago, he appeared on a podcast to walk through what he called a second brain — a personal producti...
The Institutional Erasure of Adoptee Identity: Anomie by Algorithm
Last week, GLAAD released its sixth annual Social Media Safety Index. The report is comprehensive, forensic, and necessary. It documents how Meta, YouTube, X, and TikTok are failing LGBTQ+ users: not just by allowing hate speech to circulat...
The Four Books Have Already Been Written
A Statement on What’s Coming
There are four books. They exist. They have been finished for months, sitting in folders, waiting for the ground to be prepared. I am preparing it now.
You have been reading pieces of them scatte...
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Writer and adoptee exposing the realities of forced adoption, identity erasure, and institutional harm. His work challenges dominant narratives and centres truth, justice, and lived experience.
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